Gramener Storylabs
A research team that narrates data stories in innovative and engaging formats
Have you read our book?
From Data to Stories
Business reports can be boring and your stakeholders can miss out on actionable insights if they lack a human touch.
It’s time you tried the ‘data comic stories’ approach. Our book ‘From Data to Stories’ shows how comics and data visualization combine well to help narrate insights as engaging stories.
Our focus areas
Explorable Narratives
Interactive visualizations that you can play with and find insights on your own
Comic Data Storytelling
Comic narratives with actionable insights that can help you drive decisions
Power BI Storytelling
Comicgen Power BI plugin to help Power BI developers create storytelling dashboards
Here's our latest
Everyone’s point of view on Data Storytelling is different. Here’s an attempt from Gramener explaining what are insights and how to explain them.
If you are confused about how to start telling data stories, check out these three commonly used patterns.
It is a platform to help the community explore data comic storytelling through Gramener’s Comicgen tool.
Publications
This post talks about how to redesign data stories to engage readers and drive decisions
Everyone’s point of view on Data Storytelling is different. Here’s an attempt from Gramener explaining what are insights and how to explain them.
This post focuses on using the deductive structure of storytelling to create animated gifs
GIFs can tell an entire story in a few seconds. Find out how you can do this with dynamic visuals.
Art produced in this manner is often called Generative Art. Here’s a collection of plotted generative artworks from Story Labs.
In a hackathon organised around storytelling, we created personalised bookmarks that capture the unique interests and personality of our audience.
Physical data visualizations are made using tangible elements such as threads, beads, etc. Here are some lessons learned from creating physical data visualizations.
Let’s take the bird inside the box scenario. The bird is flying but it’s always inside the box. This makes it easy to track it’s flying pattern by the observer.
This article presents Put a Pin on It, an interactive physical visualisation exhibited at the Agami Summit in November 2019 by Gramener’s Storylabs.
Can’t draw, but want to create comic strips? Try your hand at Gramener’s ComicGen, now with 6 unique characters.
More of our work
Can’t draw, but want to create comic strips? Try your hand at Gramener’s ComicGen, now with 6 unique characters.
Read a review from Duncan Geere on Joyful Data and how he used it to create a data art in just 5 minutes.
GIFs can tell an entire story in a few seconds. Find out how you can do this with dynamic visuals.
This generative data art project aims at capturing the distinct portrait of an individual. Try it Yourself.
Let’s take the bird inside the box scenario. The bird is flying but it’s always inside the box. This makes it easy to track it’s flying pattern by the observer.
Art produced in this manner is often called Generative Art. Here’s a collection of plotted generative artworks from Story Labs.
This article presents Put a Pin on It, an interactive physical visualisation exhibited at the Agami Summit in November 2019 by Gramener’s Storylabs.
A look inside MoMA’s collection reveals the changing landscape of artists and artworks.
Here’s an easy guide on how to wrap long text labels in charts using vega js
This post talks about how to redesign data stories to engage readers and drive decisions
Organizations we've engaged with
Reading Research Reports Should Never Be A Drudge. It Needs To Be A Joyful Experience, And We Did Just That For The World Bank. Our Story On Tech Entrepreneurship Gives The Reader A Visual Experience Of Insights Coupled With The Traditional Reading Format Of The Web.
Many Things Go Unnoticed During A Live TV Debate. Finding Patterns For Partially Structured Texts And Communicating Them As Stories Is A Need For Media Houses. We Helped The Miami Herald Achieve That For The Presidential Debates Of 2016. Check Out The Story.
Mentions and recognition
- Your data story needs more than data by Juice Analytics
- Make your own data glyphs by Duncan Geere
- 2nd place in the CGDV hackathon
- How to experiment with visualization & handle critiques by Allison Torban
- Best of the visualisation web – June 2018 by Andy Kirk
- Best of the visualisation web – Feb 2018 by Andy Kirk
- Best of the visualisation web – Nov 2017 by Andy Kirk
- This Week’s Top Ten in Data Journalism by the Global Investigative Journalism Network
- Visualizing voting similarities in the Senate by Alberto Cairo
- How to improve this visualization of voting in the U.S. Congress? by Andrew Gelman
- A makeover of the visualization of voting similarities in the Senate by Alberto Cairo
- Best of the visualisation web – Aug 2017 by Andy Kirk
- Best of the visualisation web – Apr 2016 by Andy Kirk
- Visualizing Shakespeare’s sonnets by Alberto Cairo
- Wikipedia Sonnets: Study Resources by Alberto Cairo
